U.K. poker pro Rhys floppinhelJones (pictured) has been quite successful online in recent weeks. In a one-week time span, he recorded wins in six MTTs tracked for the PocketFives Poker Rankingsand consequently booked not one, but two Triple Crowns. His adventures started on August 26, when Jones won the PokerStars.fr Night on Stars and the 888 Poker $40,000 Turbo Mega Deep.

Three days later, he won two tournaments on PartyPokerand then followed those up with another Night on Stars victory. For his curtain call, Jones blazed through the field of a $100 buy-in tournament on Betfair on September 2 for $5,100.

“I’ve been trying to focus on goals that are not necessarily money-oriented,” Jones told PocketFives in an exclusive interview, “like putting in volume tracked by VPPs, moving up in the PocketFives Rankings, and getting other achievements. Having seen good friends like Sam TheSquid Grafton (pictured) win Triple Crowns on multiple occasions, I was pretty excited when the Triple Crown sweat developed after the two wins on August 26.” Grafton owns four Triple Crowns, the most recent of which came in late April.

Attaining a Triple Crown means branching out across multiple sites, as a person needs to win three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Rankings within a week. As you can tell, Jones’ Triple Crown journey brought him to rooms like 888 Poker, PartyPoker, and Betfair, so we asked him for a scouting report of each one.

“PokerStarsis great,” Jones told us, “but it’s heavily reg-based, especially midweek. All other sites like PokerStars.fr, Betfair, and iPoker are super soft, as they’re tied in so heavily with casino and sports betting that you get a lot of punters flicking in poker tournaments with limited experience. 888 Poker is similar too. I’m not sure why I have more success on PartyPoker than PokerStars right now, but it definitely feels significantly softer.” PartyPoker is just a few months away from rolling out brand new software.

Two of his six wins, or one-third, came on PokerStars.fr, the French-facing PokerStars client. “Until the last couple of weeks, I was losing significantly on there,” Jones admitted about PokerStars.fr. “You can’t transfer the same style of multi-tabling to PokerStars.fr as you have on PokerStars.com. Particularly when it first started up, playing on Stars.fr was like going back to poker in 2003. Stuff that is standard in more aggressive and advanced tournaments is far from the case there. I didn’t give it enough attention and, as a result, probably played far too loosely. Fingers crossed – recent results suggest I might be moving in the right direction.”

Jones got started in poker in much the same way as many members of PocketFives did, participating in low-stakes £5 tournaments once a week with friends. He narrated, “Home games turned into traveling to casinos and meeting experienced players once we all turned 18. Online poker came after meeting some of the British sickos who were crushing live and online poker as their job.”

While he seems to be cruising along in Hold’em, Jones has little interest in branching out into other games anytime soon. He admitted, “Besides losing Omaha flips against mates, I don’t really play non-Hold’em games at all. I have discussed some Omaha hand histories this year with friends during the WSOP and am pretty keen on getting into that, maybe in the next year or so.”

He elaborated, “New games take time and motivation. I’m enjoying putting in the hours I am into online Hold’em MTTs right now, but I look forward to making the time and having the desire to learn a new game. I am not a fan of doing stuff half-heartedly, though.”

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